Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Maryland health officials are seeking permission to use federal dollars to pay for Medicaid patients to get substance-abuse and mental-health treatment outside the state's general hospitals. Lifting the ban on such spending would expand the options for people seeking care, allowing them to use community treatment facilities that specialize in those services and tend to be less costly than hospitals, said officials from the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. A waiver from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would also give state officials another tool to use against the heroin epidemic, which has led to a doubling in overdose deaths from 2010 to 2014, said...

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— A Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act brought relief to more than a million Floridians who depend on them to save thousands of dollars on their policies each year.Florida has the...

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Florida.
More specifically, South Florida.
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Sometime this month, the Supreme Court is likely to issue its ruling in King v. Burwell – a case that will decide whether health insurance premium subsidies for moderate- and middle-income Americans will continue to be available in all states, or...

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